The Constitution, civil rights, civil liberties, and criminal justice
- Make No Law: The First Amendment Podcast
- More Perfect (from Radiolab)
- Nice White Parents, from the New York Times / Serial (five episodes)
- Curtis Flowers – In the Dark season 2, from American Public Media
- “Episode 84: Harold,” from This American Life, 21 November 1997.
- “Interpreting the Constitution in the Digital Era,” from Fresh Air, 30 November 2011.
- “Episode 563: The Problem We All Live With – Part Two,” from This American Life, 7 August 2015.
- “Is America Engaged in a ‘Vicious Cycle’ of Jailing the Poor?” from Fresh Air, 11 May 2016.
- “‘Charged’ Explains How Prosecutors and Plea Bargains Drive Mass Incarceration,” from Fresh Air, 10 April 2019.
- “Getting Out,” from The New York Times‘s “The Sunday Read” series, 14 June 2020.
- “The Militarization of Police,” from Fresh Air, 1 July 2020.
- “Why the US Prison System Makes Mental Illness Worse (And How We Might Fix It),” from Fresh Air, 16 July 2020.
- “Wrongfully Accused by an Algorithm,” from The New York Times podcast The Daily, 3 August 2020.
Privacy / civil liberties
- “Act Two: Is That a Tape Recorder in Your Pocket, or Are You Just Unhappy to See Me?” from This American Life episode #414: “Right to Remain Silent,” 10 September 2010.
- “A Conversation with Edward Snowden (Part 1),” from Star Talk Radio, 18 September 2015.
- “Edward Snowden Speaks Out: ‘I Haven’t and I Won’t Cooperate with Russia’,” from Fresh Air, 19 September 2019.
- “Journalist Who Helped Break Snowden’s Story Reflects on His High-Stakes Reporting,” from Fresh Air, 20 May 2020.
History
- “The ‘Unresolved Legacy’ of Reconstruction,” from Fresh Air, 5 June 2020.
- The 1619 Project from the New York Times (six episodes)
Immigration / refugees
- “Episode 520: No Place Like Home,” from This American Life, 14 March 2014.
- “Episode 560: Abdi and the Golden Ticket,” from This American Life, 3 July 2015.
- “Episode 609: It’s Working Out Very Nicely,” from This American Life, 3 February 2017.
- “How Separating Migrant Families Became U.S. Policy,” from The New York Times podcast The Daily, 19 June 2018.
- “Is There a Crisis at the Border?” from The New York Times podcast The Daily, 8 January 2019.
- “A Conversation With a Border Patrol Agent,” from The New York Times podcast The Daily, 24 September 2019.
- “What a Border Sheriff Thinks About the Wall,” from The New York Times podcast The Daily, 11 January 2019.
Congress, presidency, and the courts
- “Redistricting: A Story of Divisive Politics, Odd Shapes,” from Fresh Air, 24 September 2012.
- “Paul Ryan’s Exit Interview,” from The New York Times‘s podcast, The Daily, 8 August 2018.
Elections / campaigns
- “Act One: Who’s Really On Line 1?” from This American Life episode #578, “I Thought I Knew You,” 29 January 2016.
- “Electoral College ‘Not Carved in Stone:’ Author Advocates Rethinking How We Vote,” from Fresh Air, 18 March 2020.
- “Is the U.S. Ready to Vote by Mail?” from The New York Times‘s podcast, The Daily, 4 August 2020.
- “The Electoral College,” from Throughline podcast, 15 October 2020.
- “First Timers: Out of Prison and Finally Able to Vote,” from Slate‘s podcast What Next, 20 October 2020.
- “A Peculiar Way to Elect a President,” from The New York Times‘s podcast, The Daily, 22 October 2020.
Media, parties, and interest groups
- “Act One: Sex, Boyhood and Politics in South Carolina,” from This American Life episode 580, “That’s One Way to Do It,” 19 February 2016.
- “Episode 600: Will I Know Anyone at This Party?” from This American Life, 28 October 2016.
- “A Fraudulent Election in North Carolina,” from The New York Times‘s podcast, The Daily, 27 February 2019.
- “From Russia with Likes (Part 1),” from Your Undivided Attention, 24 July 2019.
- “From Russia with Likes (Part 2),” from Your Undivided Attention, 1 August 2019.
Specific policy issues
- “Trump Wanted to Scrap Obamacare. His Party Didn’t.” from The New York Times‘s podcast, The Daily, 3 April 2019.
- “The American Women Who Joined ISIS,” from The New York Times podcast The Daily, 22 February 2019.
World issues
- “Episode 206: Somewhere in the Arabian Sea,” from This American Life, 1 March 2002.
- “Episode 387: Arms Trader (2009),” from This American Life, 7 August 2009.